COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
These stories I have collected to amuse
Avery Hopwood
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks are due to the following authors and publishers for permission to use the stories contained in this book:
Harper and Brothers and Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman for The Cat, from Understudies (copyright 1901 by Harper and Brothers).
Houghton Mifflin Co., for Zut, from Zut and Other Parisians (copyright 1903 by Guy Wetmore Carryl).
E. P. Dutton and Co., for A Psychical Invasion, from John Silence.